"Sub-group: The Degree of Faith that Exists between Anglicans and Catholics; Sub-group: Practical Recommendations for the Next Steps in the On-going Process of Ecumenical Reception; Sub-group: Visible and Practical Outcomes of Spiritual Communion with Proposals for Pastoral and Practical Strategies to Help the Two Communions, Especially in Local Contexts, to do Together Whatever is Possible in the Present Stage of Real but Imperfect Communion"

In 1990 the second Forum of representatives of the Oriental Orthodox Churches and the Churches of Anglican Communion, meeting at the Monastery of St. Bishoy in Wadi el Natroun, Egypt, was able to produce the following statement

This Report “Growth in Communion” is the outcome of the Anglican-Lutheran International Working Group which met for the first time in February 2000, appointed by the Anglican Communion and the Lutheran World Federation, and concluded its work in May 2002. The background and mandate of the Working Group are described in the Introduction.

"Initial meetings at Lambeth Palace with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr George Carey, and at the Vatican with Pope John Paul II and with officials of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, in discerning the mandate of the new commission"